Author of thirteen books on a wide range of subjects, Alan Twigg is a fifth-generation Vancouverite who has produced the cultural newspaper B.C. BookWorld since 1987. In 2007 he became the second recipient of the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellowship in the Humanities at Simon Fraser University “to recognize and support leaders in the humanities who are not necessarily part of the academy.” In the same year he was also the first Writer in Residence at the George Price Centre for Peace in Belize.

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